I loved the idea of this story, the last remnants of the human race travelling across space looking for a new home because "surprise surprise" we managed to cock-up Earth. They discover a new home but not all is as expected. The story follows two groups, first there are the humans protecting their cargo and fighting amongst themselves and then you have the occupants of the planet watching them evolve and making similar mistakes to humans during their evolution.

Now for the bits that annoyed me, first the narrator, I couldn't get my head around if there was a narrator or we were hearing the thoughts of the beings on the planet, it seemed to jump between the two which was rather annoying, why would human words be used, for example there was a plague which was called....a plague. The technology was another issue for me, sometimes things would be explained and the ideas would be really inventive and then at other times you're just left hanging, I did stop reading the book for a few weeks when I got annoyed that the reader just had to accept that communication between the planet and an object in space was possible, yes I know I'm sad.

I wish I could have enjoyed this like so many others have but it just wasn't to be. I see there is a sequel and this book was good enough to have me intrigued to see what is next in this saga.

Blog review: felcherman.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/children-of-time-by-adrian-tchaikovsky/